libertarians:

“Here’s the other clever thing. All of the taxes deliberately go into one pot. And here’s why. Because all of the schools and the roads and the hospitals, all of the, shall we say, ‘positive stuff’ gets paid for out of the taxes. All of the good stuff for the people. But also rinse the same pot out the back door, right? So they pay for their wars and their private military contracts, their arms deals, their corrupt pharmaceutical stuff and all of the bullshit and corruption. They rinse and rinse and rinse the same pot. Now—here’s what happens. People like me or people like you will say something like, ‘Fuck this. I don’t want to pay taxes to fund wars, to bomb people all over the world. I don’t want to pay taxes to fund that. It’s disgusting. I’m not doing it.’ And then people will say, “Oh? You don’t want to pay taxes? Well, I suppose that means you don’t want to pay for hospitals. You want people to die, do you? Is that what you want? You want people to die. Well, Ben, I suppose you want AIDS in Africa, too, don’t you? In fact, now that we’re at it, I bet you want babies to die.”

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Ben Lowrey.

I hear this from both sides of the aisle and end up with my head in my hands.